Out Now: June 2023 issue of IFLA Journal

IFLA Journal. June 2023

Opening with an essay on Dutch libraries that highlights the library community in The Netherlands for the 2023 WLIC in Rotterdam, the June 2023 issue of IFLA Journal features 16 articles that represent several timely issues for the profession. These articles range from a continued focus on the impac...

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Contents:

Editorial

The Dutch library system: Past, present and future 263
Dutch National Organising Committee of IFLA WLIC 2023

Original Articles

‘‘Libraries model sustainability’’: The results of an OCLC survey on library contributions
to the Sustainable Development Goals 269
Lynn Silipigni Connaway, Brooke Doyle, Christopher Cyr, Peggy Gallagher and Joanne Cantrell

Academic libraries’ main strategies and services during the COVID-19 pandemic 286
Reza Rajabali Beglou and Somaye Sadat Akhshik

Green initiatives towards environmental sustainability: Insights from libraries in Kenya 298
Arnold Mwanzu, Emily Bosire-Ogechi and Damaris Odero

Effects of COVID-19 on sub-Saharan African library associations 315
Comfort A.B. Asare and Samuel Bentil Aggrey

Online information seeking during the COVID-19 pandemic: A cross-country analysis 328
Mahmood Khosrowjerdi, Cecilia Black Fylking and Neda Zeraatkar

Spread of misinformation during COVID-19: The case of Mauritius 345
Ambareen Beebeejaun

Accessing special collections during the COVID-19 pandemic in university libraries in Nigeria 357
Saturday U. Omeluzor, Philomena F. Gbemi-Ogunleye, Asimi Akibu Alarape and Lateef Alhaji Bello

The legitimacy of Scandinavian libraries, archives and museums as public spheres: Views from the professionals 368
Håkon Larsen, Nanna Kann-Rasmussen and Kerstin Rydbeck

How do Asian international students use Australian university libraries? A literature review 375
Clare P. O’Dwyer

Continuing professional development in Cambodia: Perspectives of different stakeholders 384
Gina de Alwis Jayasuriya and Shaheen Majid

Assessing library and information science graduates’ skills and knowledge against 21st-century employability demands 407
Mohamed Kassim, Kokuberwa Katunzi-Mollel and Kelefa Mwantimwa

Students’ perceptions of the user education programmes at a South African university 419
Katlego Petrus Chiya, Omwoyo Bosire Onyancha and Ifeanyi J Ezema

The power of information and coping with albinism: An autoethnographic study 432
Anna Ngula

Case Study

Developing research data management services in a regional comprehensive university: The case
of Central Washington University 443
Ping Fu, Maurice Blackson and Maura Valentino

Review Article

IFLA’s role in the implementation of the Marrakesh Treaty 452
Fredrick Otike and Ágnes Hajdu Barát

Abstracts 467

IFLA Journal is an international journal publishing peer reviewed articles on library and information services and the social, political and economic issues that impact access to information through libraries. The Journal publishes research, case studies and essays that reflect the broad spectrum of the profession internationally. IFLA Journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

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• Editor: Steven W. Witt
• Frequency: Quarterly
• ISSN: 0340-0352
• eISSN: 1745-2651
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